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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
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TEXAS A. & M.
DEEP IN AGGIELAND
VOLUME 44
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 1945
NUMBER 58
Fall Semester Final Review Cancelled
Registration To Begin February 1 For
Students Who Have No Failing Grades
Registration schedules for the-
coming semester were released by
the Registrar’s office today. The
class arrangement schedule is pub
lished on the back page of this
issue of the Battalion.
According to the Official Direc
tions for Registration, as published
by the Registrar’s office, all stu
dents who have no failing grades
on their records and are not on any
type of probation will be allowed
to register during their off pe
riods on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, the last three days of
the semester. All old students who
do not register at this time must
register on February 5. Men whose
names begin with letters from M
to Z will sign up at 8 a.m., those
from A to L at 9 a.m., and all who
could not register at their appoint
ed times at 10 a.m. All new stu
dents will register from 8 to 5 on
that day.
Students who are on probation
either from a former record or
from the mid-semester report will
not be permitted to register with
out reporting to their deans. Any
one who does not turn in his as
signment card by 5 p.m. on Feb
ruary 5 will be charged an extra
$2.00 on their fees. Students reg
istering for less than 12 credit
hours must report to the Regis
trar’s Office before beginning reg
istration. Juniors and seniors in
the School of Arts and Sciences
must have their assignment cards
initialed by the heads of their ma
jor departments before presenting
them to their deans.
Examination schedules are print
ed in the bulletin released today.
Each course section number is fol
lowed by a letter which denotes
the time and day of his examina
tion in that course.
Excess hours, not exceeding four
may be taken by students who
made more than 28 grade points
(See REGISTRATION, Page 3)
Marine Ex Graduates
From Artillery Camp
Marine Second Lieutenant Rob
ert G. Martin, son of Ray C. Mar
tin of Wharton, Texas, has been
graduated from the Artillery
course, Marine Corps School here,
and has been assigned to duty with
a combat organization.
Lieutenant Martin attended Tex
as A. & M. College, where he ma
jored in Dairy Husbandry before
enlisting in the Marine Corps.
Shepardson Will
Attend Conference
Dean Chas. N. Shepardson and
Dr. G. W. Adriance of the Horti
culture Department will leave Fri
day night for a series of confer
ences with leaders of the citrus
fruit industry in the Rio Grande
Valley.
Leaders of the Industry and the
college have recognized, for some
time, the need of a more extensive
research program in the field of
citriculture and for the extensive
and specialized training of men for
that field.
Among the leaders in that field
is the Rio Farms, Inc., headed by
Mr. Sam D. Tayloe, a former stu
dent of A. & M. This organization
is considering a plan through which
they and other interests in the val
ley might foster and assist with
the development of such a research
and instruction program.
Dean Shepardson feels that the
recently chartered Texas A. & M.
Research Foundation affords an
excellent opportunity for the col
lege to join with the valley inter
ests and the Texas College of Arts
and Industries in developing an
outstanding project in the field of
citriculture and in the processing
and marketing of valley fruits and
vegetables. Conferences will be
held with Mr. R. B. McLeaish, gen
eral manager of the Lower Rio
Grande Valley Planning Board, Mr.
Tayloe and other interested men in
the valley and with President Jones
of the College of Arts and Indus
tries at Kingsville.
Biology Prof To
Speak In Iowa
Dr. R. G. Reeves, professor of
Biology at Texas A. & M. College,
has accepted an invitation to de
liver a series of lectures before
the staffs of the biology, agronomy
and horticulture departments of
Iowa State College on work he
has been doing in corn breeding.
He will leave College Station
Jan. 21 and spend all that week at
Ames.
Report will be made by Dr.
Reeves on crossing studies carried
on over eight years with corn and
related species of grasses.
Casey’s Pen Taken
If you have ever been to
Casey’s Confectionery to write
a check and reached for your
pen only to find you’d left it at
home, you were in the same fix
that many other Aggies are in
now since the desk pen on the
counter has been appropriated
by some thoughtless member of
the corps. The pen is gone, and
if you didn’t bring yours, you
can’t get that money you need.
This type of desk pen cannot
be replaced at present, and since
it was put there for the conven
ience of the corps, the man who
unscrewed it will be doing the
corps a favor to bring it back.
Orchestra, Cadets
To Go To Swift
Saturday afternoon, the Singing
Cadets will leave for Austin, on
their second trip of the semes
ter in cooperation with the Ag-
gieland Orchestra.
They will entertain Saturday
evening at the U. S. 0. in Austin.
Sunday at 2:4b p.m., they will per
form for convalescing veterans at
Camp Swift. The Cadets and the
Orchestra are putting on their
show in response to numerous re
quests from Camp Swift for some
type of entertainment for the
veterans there.
Turner announced that the pro
gram would include school songs,
spirituals, and both popular and
sacred numbers; Burl Ervin, pres
ident of the club, will sing two
solos, the first being “The Holy
City”, and the second “Forgotten.”
About 55 students will make
the trip.
Press Club Banquet
To Be Wednesday
Wednesday, January 24, the
Press Club will hold its banquet
in the Aggieland Inn at 6:45 p.m.
for the purpose of presenting
awards to the various members of
the staff. As yet no speaker has
been announced, but it is likely
that this is immediately forthcom
ing.
All members of the Battalion
staff as well as the members of
the Longhorn staff are urged to
be present by Dick Goad, presi
dent of the Press Club.
Texas Forest Patrol Civil Air
Patrol Are A-l Fire Fighters
By D. L. Mitchell
Lt. J. B. Clark, intelligence of
ficer of the Civil Air Patrol and
the Texas Forest Patrol returned
Wednesday night from Randolph
Field with Miss Laura Lane of the
Extension Service after consulting
with Lt. Col. T. T. Brown, direc
tor of the film strip unit at Ran
dolph Field, on ideas concerning
the photographic setups used for
the training of pilots and ground
observers of the Civil Air Patrol
and Texas .Forest Patrol.
There are training schools for
the Texas Forest Patrol in Bryan,
Palestine, Lufkin, Beaumont, Mar
shall, and Jacksonville where pi
lots are trained for aerial observ
ance of vital forest areas and
where ground crews are trained
for observance, ordnance, and ra
dio operation. Film strips are used
in the training as they more ade
quately teach them by observance.
It is the responsibility of Lt. Clark
to furnish these films for the
training schools over the forest
areas of Texas.
Seventy-four Texas Forest Serv
ice towers and a fleet of airplanes
guard a vitally important timber
area of 16 million acres which is
larger than the states of New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Con
necticut combined. Our armed
forces need wood to continue their
far-flung campaigns in various
ways against Germany and Japan,
and the worst threat against our
timber lands is man’s best friend
and worst enemy, fire. Each year
many acres of precious timber are
destroyed and stunted by fires
which sweep swiftly over the coun
tryside if they are not checked.
“For the first half of January,
1945, the Texas Forest Patrol is
credited with 58 hours and 25 min
utes of patrol duty during which
27 forest fires were reported,”
Capt. S. L. Frost of the Texas
Forest Service and Civil Air Patrol
stated today in the office of W.
E. White, director of the Texas
Forest Service. These forest fires
were quickly checked and extin
guished and thereby many acres of
timberland were saved by the serv
ices of the Texas Forest Patrol
and ground crews.
Along with the Texas Forest Pa
trol goes the Civil Air Patrol which
is open to interested boys and girls
of the ages of 15 to 17 who would
like to get preflight training and
a real experience. Many boys and
girls upon arriving at the age of
18 years have gone into the Texas
Forest Patrol as helpful and patri
otic workers. There are now 5,000
cadets in the Civil Air Patrol of
Texas who are being trained for
positions in the Texas Forest Pa
trol through the Civil Air Patrol.
Ground crews are very important
in that they are the connecting
link between the spotting of the
fires and the extinguishing of
them. Therefore many ground crew
workers are needed.
I. O. Burnside of Lufkin, Chief
of Division of Forest Service, had
an important conference with W.
E. White recently concerning the
activities of the Forest Service.
In honor of the employees of
the Texas Forest Service of Col
lege Station, W. E. White is giv
ing these men a dinner in his home
Friday evening at 7:30.
Texas citizens should well be
proud of the superb services which
the Texas Forest Service is ren
dering through the Texas Forest
Patrol and the Civil Air Patrol.
Cadet Officers Reverse Position,
Decide to Retain Discipline Duty
Religious Week
To Be Feb. 19 to 23
Religious Emphasis Week will
be observed at Texas A. & M. Col
lege February 19-23 with Dr. Wal
lace Bassett, pastor of the Cliff
Temple Baptist Church of Dallas
as the speaker.
' This will be the third observation
of Religious Emphasis Week since
it was instituted in 1942 with the
late Dr. George W. Truett as the
first speaker. The next one had
Dr. Paul Quillian as speaker. The
observance is under auspices on
the campus.
The plan is to invite a speaker
fort the public service each day in
Guion Hall to address the students,
faculty members and civilians.
Each denomination has a visiting
minister to hold evening services
in the various churches. These vis-
i iting ministers eat with the stu
dents and visit with them in the
dormitories, holding “refined bull
sessions.”
The Y. M. C. A. and each of the
churches appoint two students as
members of the Inter-Church Coun
cil to work with the ministers and
the Y.M.C.A. in making and carry
ing out plans for the meeting.
There has been an unusually fine
cooperation from this group of
students which embraces all of the
Protestant denominations as well
as the Jewish and Catholic faiths.
Further announcements about
this service will follow.
Blackout Slows
Things Down In
Ad Building
Eyestrain is one thing, but work
ing in the dark is another. The
Battalion staff was cei’tainly “in
the dark” yesterday afternoon
about the cause of the lighting
situation in the Administration
building until it was discovered by
contact with the Building and Col
lege Utilities Office that a trans
former had burned out and caused
a blackout.
The tragic act, which no doubt
caused many headaches, occurred
at exactly 11 minutes to 9 a.m.,
according to the still clocks, and
service was restored this morning.
“When the lights went on again”
everyone in the Administration
building was certainly thankful.
John W. Mitchell,
Math Professor
Dies In Houston
After a long illness, Dr. John
W. Mitchell, Professor of Mathe
matics, passed away in Houston
last Tuesday night.
Dr. Mitchell was born in Green
County, Tennessee, on September
25, 1876. He graduated from Mary
ville College at Maryville, Tennes
see, in 1904 with an A.B. degree.
He was a graduate student of
Math at the University of Chicago,
entered A. and M. in 1907 as an
instructor of Mathematics, and re
ceived a full professorship in 1925.
He had always been an outstand
ing citizen of the community, and
always worked for the good of
College Station and the A. and M.
College. He was the chief sponsor
and director of prizes offered for
Math students. As chief promoter
and collector of money from Exes
for the Robert F. Smith Memorial
Fund, Dr. Mitchell won many
friends.
His influence over students on
the campus gained for him the
everlasting support of everyone
who knew him. One of the most
competent Math professors the
College has had, he helped many
students both financially and mor
ally.
’ Seniors Still Not
Satisfied With Rules
Governing Discipline
Cool judgment prevailed and the
threatened mass resignation of the
cadet officers of A. & M. was can
celled in a meeting of the senior
class Thursday night. After an
hour of discussion and orderly de
bate the senior class voted unani
mously to withhold their resigna
tions and continue as cadet offi
cers.
This reversed an earlier action
taken by the cadet officers in a
meeting in the band room of Dor
mitory 16 Wednesday night. In
this meeting they agreed to hand
in letters of resignation to the
military department beginning
early Thursday morning and con
tinuing throughout the day until
all cadet officers and non-commis
sioned officers had turned in let
ters of resignation.
Seniors gave as an explanation
of their proposed action mass in
dignation and dissatisfaction with
the A. & M. rules and interpreta
tion of the rules concerning the
disciplining of underclassmen.
In the meeting Thursday night
the cadet officers decided to retain
their commissions and seek action
through regular channels. Members
of the class expressed the wish to
have an audience with President
Gibb Gilchrist as soon as he re
turns from his tour of the branch
colleges of A. & M.
Airman, Chinese
Agriculture Head
Speak To Exes
Discusses Shipping
Problems Of Air
Transport - Command
Captain Monte Carmichael, just
returned from two years duty at
the Air Transport Command base
at Natal, Brazil discussed details
of the movement of material back
and forth across the Atlantic be
fore about 50 members of the
Brazos County A. & M. Club
Monday night at the Bryan Coun
try Club.
He told of the squaks of high
officers because their bales and
boxes were not delivered day be
fore yesterday instead of the day
after tomorrow, and what a prob
lem other high officers were when
given trip ratings below badly
needed freight. Captain Carmich
ael gave details, so far as he was
allowed, on functions of the Air
Transport Command and how it
operates in supplying fighting
fronts with stuff needed in a hur
ry-
J. D. Martin, Jr., afTd John M.
Lawrence, Jr. were added to the
Good Samaritan Committee along
with P. L. Downs, Jr. and S. A.
Lipscomb.
Congratulations were voted
Homer H. Norton on renewal of
his athletic directorate contract,
and Dean Emeritus E. J. Kyle on
his faithful service to the Texas
A. & M,. College. Another resolu
tion favored a well-rounded athletic
program at the College with equal
emphasis on all sports events.
C. L. Hu, director of China’s
Bureau of Agricultural Research
and recipient of M. S. degree from
Texas A. & M. College in 1936,
was introduced and told of China’s
15-year struggle for existence
against Japanese aggression.
P. L. Downs, Jr. gave a report
on presenting Texas Aggie robes
to 18 former A. & M. students
now patients in McCloskey Gen
eral Hospital, which were Christ
mas gifts from the local club, and
similar presentation of wool lined
leather slippers by the Brazos
County American Legion Auxil
iary under the chairmanship of
Mrs. H. V. Rau.
Seniors Will Be Awarded
Commissions At Retreat
Engraved Commissions Awaiting President
Gilchrist’s Signature; Given Next Week
Engraved commissions signed by Col M. D. Welty and
President Gibb Gilchrist will be given next week to those
seniors who were cadet officers before the present group
assumed duties early last November.
There will be no final review this semester for the
graduating seniors because the College Calendar does not
Slipstick Contest
WinnersAnnounced
Last night, the upper 15% of the
students of the Engineering De
partments met in the Lecture Room
of the Mechanical Engineering
Building for the announcement of
the winners of the Slide Rule Con
test.
The winner of the contest was
John M. Sellen, Jr., who received
the slide rule and bronze plaque
of the A.S.M.E. Department. The
bronze plaque was presented to
the highest man in his department
and an aluminum plaque to the
second highest. The highest in their
respective departments were: Fred
R. Holste, Ch. E.; H. J. Auver-
mann, E. E.; J. J. Putegnat, M.
E.; A. D. Albert, Te. E.; Bill T.
Elkin, Pet. E.; W. E. Cory, A. E.
The second highest man in their
departments were: J. E. Wirschirg,
C. E.; Robert L. Cleland, Ch.E.;
H. E. McDowell, Jr., E.E.; Charles
H. Hardie, M.E.; J. E. Fox, Ag.E.;
C. K. Wampler, Pet.E.
After the presentation of the
plaques, Dr. Crawford, head of the
M.E. Department, presented the
heads of the other Engineering De
partments. These departmental
heads presented honorary member
ships in their respective societies
to the winners in the contest.
The Slide Rule Contest is about
10 years old, but it was only last
semester that Mr. Fleming sug
gested the presentation of plaques
to the winners in each department.
provided for one on the schedule.
Major Joe E. Davis, assistant com
mandant, explained that if a final
review were held at the end of
this semester it would have to
take place on Saturday afternoon,
February 3 and that to do so it
would cut the returning Aggies
holiday short because they have
to be back at A. & M. to register
for the spring semester on Mon
day, February 5.
The engraved commissions will
probably be presented at a re
treat ceremony next week Major
Davis said. In normal times the
commissions are given at final re
view or at the Mother’s Day cere
mony but since A. & M. went on
the speedup program they have
been given out at different times.
Last spring they were presented
at a ceremonial parade. The ex
act date of presentation cannot be
set because the commissions are
awaiting the signature of Presi
dent Gilchrist. He is expected to
return from a business trip
around the circuit of branch col
leges of A. & M. sometime Satur
day.
Major Davis also stated that as
yet there have been no engraved
commissions prepared for those
cadet officers now holding posi
tions.
Neither will be a final ball this
semester. Taps for seniors was
played last Saturday night after
the corps ball for the seniors who
will not return next semester.
Chemical Society
To Meet Thursday
Aggie Pilot Brought
Plane HomeAgainst
German Odds 15 to 1
AT A 12TH AAF B-25 BASE—-
A bomber that didn’t know when
it was dead and a pilot who would
not let it lie down teamed up to
bring a combat crew home to their
Corsican base after a running bat
tle with fighters over the Po val
ley recently.
The plane, a B-25 Mitchell from
the Mediterranean’s eldest medium
bomb group, and the pilot, Second
Lieutenant Charles H. Wolf (moth
er, 406 E. 17th St., Hutchinson,
Kans., and father, 5200 Milam St.,
Dallas, Tex.) maneuvei'ed safely
through a one-sided tussle with the
Luftwaffe with the odds against
them 15 to 1.
“We were jumped just before our
bomb run while we were going into
attack formation,” says the 21-
year old pilot, a former Texas A.
& M. student, who flew as a ball
turret gunner with the 19th Bom
bardment Group against the Japs
in New Guinea and the Solomons
early in the war.
“The first pass the fighters
made got us. We were flying tail
end charlie, and all 15 of the Mes-
serschmitts let us have it right
away. The first thing I knew about
fighters was seeing the tracers go
ing by my cockpit window.”
Bullets and cannon shells hit the
Mitchell’s right engine, tore out
the carburetor airscreen and hy
draulic line and blasted the oil fil
ter. One blade of the right propel
ler was hit and the right aileron
was chewed up badly. More than
100 holes were counted later.
“We were knocked right out of
formation,” says Lieutenant Wolf.
“I could hardly keep the plane level
because of the damage to the aile
ron, and oil was leaking out of
(See AGGIE, Page 3)
The thirty-ninth meeting of the
Texas A. & M. section of the
American Chemical Society will be
held in the lecture room of the
Chemistry building Thursday even
ing, January 25, at 8 p.m.
Dr. G. Frederick Smith of the
Department of Chemistry, Univer
sity of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois,
will address the section on the top
ic, “Problems in the Small Scale
Manufacture of Reagent and Pro
cess Chemicals”. Visitors are wel
come to hear this talk.
The usual dinner for section
members in honor of the speaker
will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Aggie
land Inn. Members who are plan
ning to attend the dinner are re
quested to inform Dr. W. M. Potts,
Dr. P. B. Pearson, or Dr. J. D.
Lindsay of the Program Commit
tee.
Final Hillel Meet
Next Sunday Night
Next Sunday night the final
meeting of the Hillel Club for this
semester will be held in the lounge
of Sbisa Hall, it was announced
By Harold Borofsky, club presi
dent. The meeting will begin
promptly at 7 p. m.
An interesting and varied pro
gram has been planned, and re
freshments will be served.
Monday Set for A&M
Credit Union Meeting
Stockholders in the A. & M. Col
lege Federal Credit Union will hold
their annual meeting Monday, Jan
uary 22 in room 313 Agricultural
Building.
This organization, made up of
employees of the A. & M. system
was organized in 1939 for the pur
pose of extending credit on a co
operative basis among its mem
bers. It is operated on a national
scale. An invitation is extended to
anyone interested in attending.